On the southern and eastern sides, the enclosure announces itself only as a barely perceptible rise in the ground, the kind of subtle undulation a casual walker might attribute to nothing more than uneven grazing land. The northern and western sides are more forthcoming, where an earthen bank still stands to an internal height of around 1.35 metres, its outer face only marginally lower at 1.2 metres. A shallow external fosse, a defensive or drainage ditch running along the western side and a short stretch of the northern, reinforces the sense of deliberate construction. The whole enclosure measures roughly 28.7 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west, a compact but clearly intentional space on a gently south-facing slope.

What we can say with some confidence is that this kind of earthen enclosure, defined by a bank and fosse rather than stone, was a common feature of the Irish countryside across many centuries, used variously for settlement, livestock management, or as a defined working space within a farming landscape. A gap three metres wide in the northern bank, positioned 5.6 metres from the north-west corner, still functions as a recognisable gateway. The western bank has survived best, partly because it was absorbed into the later field boundary system, which inadvertently preserved it from the levelling that erased so much else. One feature has not survived at all: a lime kiln recorded at the north-west corner on the 1842 Ordnance Survey six-inch map, one of those small industrial structures once used to burn limestone into agricultural lime, has left no visible trace on the surface today.